Riot kiss: Couple's intimate moment amidst Vancouver riot

It's a photo of a couple embraced in a kiss while laying in the middle of a street. The backdrop is the bedlam in the wake of the Canucks' Game 7 loss to the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup finals.

Surrounded by police in riot gear and with thick smoke filling the air, Vancouver freelance photojournalist Richard Lam snapped this shot and described how he got it to The Vancouver Sun.

Lam tells the newspaper that he took the picture because he thought someone was hurt. He says he didn't know until later just what he had captured.
Now, the photo has 'gone viral'. The internet search engines know this as the 'riot kiss'.
But was the moment staged? Some people question if the photo is real. And just who are these people?